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Good evening, and thank you for being with us. Im Maurice Dubois in for norah. We begin here tonight with the arrest and charges that have stunned the sports world and beyond. Scottie scheffler, the pro golfer and current masters champion, was arrested early today after driving around the scene of a fatal accident. It happened as he was heading to the golf course for the second round of the pga championship. He was later charged with four counts, including felony assault, seconddegree assault of an officer. According to the report, the police said scheffler refused to comply with directions and then accelerated, dragging an officer who had to be treated at the hospital for scrapes and swelling to his knee and wrist. Scheffler, who made it back to the course for his delayed tee time, calls it all a big misunderstanding. Cbss Mark Strassmann is following todays whirlwind devel ....
A big misunderstanding. Maurice the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening, and thank you for being with us. Im Maurice Dubois in for norah. We begin tonight with the arrest and charges that have stunned the sports world and beyond. Scottie scheffler, the pro golfer and current masters champion, was arrested early today after driving around the scene of a fatal accident. It happened as he was heading to the golf course for the second round of the pga championship. He was later charged with four counts, including felony assault, seconddegree assault of an officer. According to the report, the police said scheffler refused to comply with directions and then accelerated, dragging an officer who had to be treated at the hospital for scrapes and swelling to his knee and wrist. Scheffler, who made it back to the course for his delayed teatime, called it all a big misunderstand ....
Breathtaking. the rain was literally sideways. trees, limbs ohitting your trucs and you are driving. one of the worst i ve seen. if it wasn t a tornado, it had to be awfully close. i just feel for them. they are wonderful neighbors. i just can t imagine going through what they are going through. also 1600 flights were canceled in the u.s. monday and there are almost 400,000 customers without power right now on the east coast. let s bring in derek van dam, he is live in the cnn weather center. this storm really seemed to come out of nowhere, developed quickly and with surprising power. yeah, hurricane force gusts in fact some reports over 75-mile-per-hour. but what is most astounding to me, we have over 600 reports of severe weather including one confirmed tornado with the number likely to go up. but look at that, over 500 reports of wind damage and wind ....
that is a monster tornado. reporter: battle hardened storm chasers in awe of nature s power. oh, my gosh. this is awful. dude, the trees. the trees are debarked! reporter: residents running for cover anywhere they could. in a crowded convenience store some 20 people hunkering down in a darkened commercial refrigerator. can we go in the cooler? [ screaming ] go! oh, dear heaven. god! reporter: at the same time a security camera in a nearby frozen yogurt shop catches the chaos. workers moving customers to the back and then everything goes flying. the massive tornado mowing down everything in its path. people s lives churned up and spewed out. here s the gas station that we were at. reporter: this is the convenience store now. this would have been where we walked in. reporter: all across the city, thousands and thousands of people in shock, taking the first steps on the long road to recovery. make no mistake, joplin, missouri, will rebuild, but it ....